WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, is already proving useful just months after its September launch. During the platform’s annual “State of the Word” event in San Francisco, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg highlighted several real-world examples showing how Telex has been used inside an active WordPress development shop.
The tool has helped developers quickly generate pricing comparison tools, pricing calculators, real-time business hours, map links, and other interactive features that would once have required extensive custom coding.
Telex is WordPress’s early attempt at a “vibe-coding” solution built specifically for the Gutenberg ecosystem. The tool allows developers to automatically generate Gutenberg blocks, the modular components that structure WordPress pages. Although still experimental, Telex has already delivered impressive results.
Community creator Nick Hamze used it to produce everything from interactive price comparison modules to a carousel of partner logos, Google Calendar integrations, and uniform-height post grids. Mullenweg noted that work that previously cost thousands of dollars and took days or weeks can now be generated in the browser in seconds.
Other developers are pushing Telex in creative directions as well. Designer Tammie Lister spent the month of October generating a new Gutenberg block every day, producing items such as an ASCII-style playable Tetris game and a Halloween-themed trick-or-treat block.
These demonstrations were presented alongside updates on WordPress’s broader AI roadmap, including the Abilities API, which defines what WordPress can do in a way AI systems can understand, and the MCP adapter, which exposes those capabilities to any tool that supports the Model Context Protocol. This allows WordPress sites to connect seamlessly to external AI systems like Claude and GitHub Copilot.
Mullenweg added that many developers are already integrating AI into their daily workflows using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and modern command-line interfaces. These tools allow them to refactor code, automate tasks, and run scripts alongside WP-CLI with the support of AI agents.He revealed that WordPress plans to roll out official benchmarks in 2026 that AI models can use to test their ability to perform WordPress-specific tasks from editing text to adjusting plugins or navigating the interface — marking a new phase in the platform’s AI evolution.